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Covered Vase
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Porcelain with pâte-sur-pâte decoration
Overall: 27.7 x 14.5 cm (10 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
In memory of Hattie M. Horvitz from her sons Harry, Leonard, and Bill 1984.189
Location
221 19th Century Decorative Arts
Meissen Porcelain Factory
the first and for half a century the best in Europe. It set a high standard which was emulated everywhere, even in China. Founded in 1710 as the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, at Meissen, near Dresden.